Oh that’s great Jackie! I hope you like it!

Last refuge of scoundrels . . .

Wonderful news! I've booked to see it at Dublin Film Festival next month. Can't wait!

This film based on my story from Dance Move is now BAFTA longlisted. There was such an incredible group of people, all playing their parts, so that this project actually happened. Just brilliant.

I’ll be up bright and early for BBC WS Radio Weekend programme tomorrow. It’s been a quiet week so I can’t imagine we’ll have much to discuss. But worth a listen in case

Ffs

It’s wild how European leaders are wringing their hands about a US invasion of Greenland being a violation of international law when just the other day they stood aside or even cheered as the US invaded Venezuela in violation of international law.

It’s 10 years since we made this on Common Sense by Thomas Paine www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b... (and since I first heard about the Schuyler Sisters lyric)

I've downloaded all episodes to offline mp3s For me it is a lifeline. Thanking all the team behind behind this work & I'm forever in gratitude to you all for pulling together this quarter of a century masterpiece of free knowledge. Deep respect Simon

250 yrs ago...

Four years later and he’s *still* a night manager. He’s honestly going to have to apply himself and stop sleeping with the guests if he wants to get promoted.

Feeling a little guilty that I’m not making better use of the time I don’t spend watching Traitors.

I feel a lot of empathy towards this giant gummy bear stuck to the external wall of B&M

Number crunching: Pay and dividends of Bet365 chief executive v total fiscal cost of gambling-related harm. From the new Private Eye, out now.

How’s that going then?…

Shamefully I have not updated the events page of my website since spring last year. It now has workshops and vague info about book launch dates in Belfast, Dublin and Ballymena on there if you fancy coming along to a bookish event. I promise to update it religiously this year Www.jancarson.co.uk

My first pictures of 2026 taken during a hastily arranged break from work! @GWRHelp #HST #Castle 43004 and 43042 pass Swindon with 5Q43 Laira T.& R.S.M.D. to Ely Mlf Papworth Sidings

Make it viral.

Offshore. Stealth wealth. New colonialism. I called in 2024. If you want to understand more about how this is going to work, and how it's not just about money but ideology, you can find reviews and an excerpt here: brookeharrington.com/books/offsho...

Fascinating. www.thetimes.com/article/6129...

Fucking monsters.

Please vote this year! 😂

Theory: politicians’ Twitter/x addiction and dependence is directly linked to rise in performative politics versus effective governance, and subsequent rise in populism

All the more reason to make it.

An important distinction. But not one that would console her I feel.

Wasn't she compared *with* a lettuce, rather than 'to'? We were invited to guess, and even wager on, whether or not an unrefrigerated lettuce would outlast her premiership, which of course it did. So what was under consideration was not a similarity, but a difference. Also Liz Truss is preposterous

She’s right. It wasn’t *that* funny. But her moaning about it definitely is.

If you’re not a predator…you’re prey.

‘His unit complete, Roosevelt set out for Cuba. He traveled with two horses, his black manservant ("the most faithful and loyal of men"), a revolver that had been pulled from the wreck of the Maine, and his copy of Edmond Demolins's book Anglo-Saxon Superiority.

Telling isn't it that all the "protect our girls" people are still on X despite what Grok is doing.

Epstein seems to have been relegated down the news agenda.

American foreign policy again - f***ing it up throughout history! Excellent programme with Lyse Doucet leading on BBC World Service. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The neighbours don’t give a f

“I wonder what the neighbors think when they hear ‘Fuck you, pen’ shouted in my apartment. It still isn’t writing well and I’ve a good mind to yell at it some more—there it goes! The threat is working.” From Eve Babitz’s journal in our Winter issue. buff.ly/B9OTKrO

Despite living in the city for almost 50 years, and thinking myself reasonably well informed, I learned a lot from this book. And really enjoyed reading it too. Highly recommended from lil’ old me

Who says that AI is unreliable and makes mistakes?

I’m working through this book which pretty much sets out America foreign policy [domestic to some extent too]. USA is in a constant state of Empire building.

A cartoon by Elisabeth McNair. #NewYorkerCartoons See more cartoons from this week’s issue: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/bPLrT9

Hi there fellow bibliophiles, my name is Kerrie Hutton, and I am very excited to be interning with The Irish Literary Times! Please look out for my posts signed with K.H so that I can share my literary discoveries with you all!

Imagine how embarrassing it must be to have only just contracted Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Out for a stroll yesterday & the frozen canal brought this track to mind - Elfstdentocht Pt. 2 by @psbhq.bsky.social link.deezer.com/s/325sIcQh7O...

Can I also say how much I love this photo? it’s like a behind the scenes shot from a TV chat show called “Tonight with Christine Dwyer-Hickey” obviously CDH would be the glamorous host.

Happy Nollaig na mBan everyone. Here's a piece of Corrs fan fiction/feminist horror the Irish Writers Centre commissioned for their event two years ago www.jancarson.co.uk/blog/what-can-i-do-to-make-you-love-me

State oppression is as absurd as it is damaging. #Fascism

Lovely to see the Liverpool and the unmaking of Britain was the best selling non fiction at the wonderful News From Nowhere bookshop in Liverpool!

A cartoon by Ivan Ehlers. #NewYorkerCartoons